Treatment depends on the type of hepatitis. Viral hepatitis may be treated with antiviral medication. Treatment for chronic hepatitis B may include: Antiviral medications. Several antiviral medications — including entecavir (Baraclude), teno ...
Alternative medicine is a term that describes medical treatments that are used instead of traditional (mainstream) therapies. Some people also refer to it as “integrative,” or “complementary” medicine. More than h ...
Nanomedicine is a branch of medicine that applies the knowledge and tools of nanotechnology to the prevention and treatment of disease. Nanomedicine involves the use of nanoscale materials, such as biocompatible nanoparticles and nanorobots, for d ...
Angiology is the medical specialty which studies the diseases of the circulatory system and of the lymphatic system, i.e., arteries, veins and lymphatic vessels, and its diseases. ...
Nano drug delivery has been designed to overcome these challenges due to the development and fabrication of nanostructures. It has been reported that nanostructures have the ability to protect drugs from the degradation in the gastrointestinal tra ...
A diagnostic biomarker refers to a biological parameter that aids the diagnosis of a disease and may serve in determining disease progression and/or success of treatment. It may be a laboratory, radiological, genetic, anatomical, physiol ...
Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside some of the bones in the body, including the hip and thigh bones. Bone marrow contains immature cells, called stem cells. Many people with blood cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma, sickle cell anemia, an ...
Newborn screening (NBS) is a public health program of screening in infants shortly after birth for conditions that are treatable, but not clinically evident in the newborn period. The goal is to identify infants at risk for these conditions early ...
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in a pregnant woman poses a serious risk to her infant at birth. Without postexposure immunoprophylaxis, approximately 40% of infants born to HBV-infected mothers in the United States will develop chronic HBV infe ...
Biogas is the mixture of gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen (anaerobically), primarily consisting of methane and carbon dioxide. Biogas can be produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, ...
Photoacoustic imaging (optoacoustic imaging) is a biomedical imaging modality based on the photoacoustic effect. In photoacoustic imaging, non-ionizing laser pulses are delivered into biological tissues (when radiofrequency pulses are used, the te ...
There are different types of transplantations like lung and kidney transplantations. Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for last stage kidney disease. It is a process of transferring new kidneys by replacing previously effected or d ...
A microdiscectomy (also called a microdecompression) is usually more effective for relieving leg pain (also known as radiculopathy, or sciatica) than lower back pain:1-3 For leg pain, patients will normally feel pain relief alm ...
A metabolic disorder occurs when abnormal chemical reactions in your body disrupt this process. You can develop a metabolic disorder when some organs, such as your liver or pancreas, become diseased or do not function nor ...
Organs that have been successfully transplanted include the heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, intestine, thymus, and uterus. Tissues include bones, tendons (both referred to as musculoskeletal grafts), corneas, skin, heart valves, nerves, an ...
Cartilage is a resilient and smooth elastic tissue, a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints and is a structural component of the rib cage the ear, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs ...
Anatomy is the study of the structure and relationship between body parts.Physiology is the study of the function of body parts and the body as a whole. ... Gross (macroscopic) anatomy is the study of body parts visible to the ...
Immunotherapy is at the forefront of modern oncologic care. Various novel therapies have targeted all three layers of tumor biology: tumor, niche, and immune system with a range of promising results. One emerging class in both primary and salvage ...
Neonatal mortality rate: The number of children under 28 days of age who die, divided by the number of live births in that year. Perinatal mortality (PNM) refers to the death of a fetus or neonate and is the ...
An oncolytic virus is a virus that specially contaminates and executes growth cells. As the tainted disease cells are devastated by lysis, they discharge new irresistible virus particles to help obliterate the remaining tumor. An oncolytic virus i ...